For this lab, you’ll need a Windows VM. (VMWare workstation is best.)

You can integrate GitHub into your Windows workflow in many different ways. We’ll use GitHub Desktop for this lab to push our work and VSCode for the actual programming.

• Note: VSCode does have GitHub Integration. If you want to use GitHub within VSCode, Google for a GitHub VSCode tutorial. Easy to find. We’ll use a different method for this lab.

Our first step for this lab will be to download GitHub Desktop. When you run the installer, it will ask if you want to sign in to GitHub. Go ahead and do that.

You may be prompted to allow the pop-up once you enter your GitHub username and password.

Once you are authenticated, you have the option to:

• Create a new repository
• Clone someone else’s repository
• Pick one that you have already created.

In this case, we’ll select our ExampleRepo from the last Lab and clone it.

You can place this project somewhere specific or follow the defaults on the next screen.

Google for ‘VSCode’ and install it on the VM. (No directions included here. Easy enough!)

Again, there are several ways to open the code we cloned with GitHub Desktop, but I’ll go through VSCode and choose File —> Open Folder.

Once you select the project folder we cloned from our remote GitHub repo, it’s safe to Trust the Author.